"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance." (Genet in Thief's Journal)
>Look, I don't think PR should go to jail, but I don't find anything radical or interesting in their activities. If someone's consciousness is raised by the sight of a young woman sticking frozen chickens up her vagina, that's fine. But I'm flummoxed by the whole thing.
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>Joanna
This is not only condescending (saying "that's fine" is always a giveaway for that) it's also disingenuous because it misrepresents the story. There was much more going on than "sticking frozen chickens up her vagina." And it wasn't even Pussy Riot.
These groups are in dialogue with a long history. Were you also flummoxed by Carolee Schneeman?
Here's the whole story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voina
In July of 2010, an action entitled How to Snatch a Chicken was performed in the “Nakhodka” supermarket in St. Petersburg. An unidentified female Voina activist removed a frozen chicken from the refrigerated section of the supermarket, then laboriously stuffed the entire chicken into her own vagina, while being filmed by other Voina members. She then shoplifted the chicken by leaving the supermarket without paying, with the chicken still inserted, and rejoined protesters outside the store.[13] The activists held signs spelling out the word "bezblaydno", which translates roughly as "without whoring", a reference to the group's rejection of paid employment, and preference for stealing food.